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“As is known, free life in a just society was the cherished dream of our people for centuries. In the name of achieving this sacred goal, they fought selflessly, courageously overcoming the most difficult trials on their way. No foreign yoke and violence could break the people in their noble striving for freedom.”
Shavkat Mirziyoyev (born 1957) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our independence will always be the brightest, unfading page in the glorious history of Uzbekistan" in Korea Post (1 September 2021)
“The Cold War walls have come down. They have set free the spirits of freedom and democracy, but also unleashed the demons of new threats to security. Among those threats are unconventional capabilities of the so-called "states of concern.”
Aleksander Kwaśniewski (born 1954) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the NATO HQ" (13 June 2001)
“When India was under British rule, our country fought for freedom. Now Taliban wants to free their country & run it. Taliban is a force that did not allow even strong countries like Russia & America to settle in their country.”
Shafiqur Rahman Barq (1930–2024) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal as quoted in ANI News Aug 2021
“Freedom of expression is one of the foundations of our society. Everyone is free to express their opinion. But our society will never accept indiscriminate violence, and even less towards our police forces.”
Alexander De Croo (born 1975) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander De Croo (2022) cited in: "Clashes as tens of thousands protest Covid rules in Belgium" in Malay Mail, 24 January 2022.
“In expressing publicly our faith we are exercising a civil right that is rooted in the religious freedom of a free country. It is not some privilege that is granted by public officials. It is a right that we exercise in a civil way and as citizens.”
Demetrio Fernández González (born 1950) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spanish bishop says public expression of faith is a right, not a “concession” from government (19 June 2006)
“As a retired clergyman, I'm still a priest. I have much more freedom than I had, but I haven't had much more free time.”
John George Vlazny (1937–2025) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What does an archbishop do when he retires? (25 November 2014)
“Stillness is neither dissipation nor dislocation. She is neither exclusion nor suppression. She is neither addiction to confusion nor fixation on separation.Stillness is ineffable freedom. Everything is ineffably free in true stillness. She is inexhaustible. She is endless. ‘After fire, a still small voice.’”
Silouan of Shropshire wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.”
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With its underlying principles of free expression and academic freedom, the university system is one of the nation’s great strengths. It is not to be taken for granted. Undermining higher education would harm all Americans, weakening our country and making us less able to confront the many challenges we face.”
Robert Rubin (born 1938) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert E. Rubin: Higher Education Isn’t the Enemy", The Atlantic (May 21, 2024)
“You can either be in Turkmenistan, where you have free gas but low salaries and no freedom, or you can be in the European Union-style, but then the gas will be priced to market value. Sorry.”
Andriy Kobolyev (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The market economy is not everything. It must find its place in a higher order of things which is not ruled by supply and demand, free prices, and competition. It must be firmly contained within an all-embracing order of society in which the imperfections of and harshness of economic freedom are corrected by law and in which man is not denied conditions of life appropriate to his nature.”
Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the defining story of the African diaspora in the Americas is not slavery, but our resistance to it, of people determined to be free in societies that did not believe they had a right to freedom.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I, therefore, wish to invite American investors to come in numbers and settle in Togo where, within the framework of that industrial-free zone, they could enjoy a climate of peace, security, and freedom, a necessary condition for the development of their businesses, including the best attracting conditions of investments.”
Gnassingbé Eyadéma (1935–2005) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks Following Discussions With President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo" (31 July 1990)
“If netizens want to live free from fear and want, offline and on, then they will not achieve this by handing decision-making about the internet to increasingly secretive, unaccountable governments. Trading freedom for security is no security at all.”
Jane Duncan (academic) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An excerpt from her article, 'Inside SA’s cyber-insecurity problem', written for the Mail & Guardian. 2015
“We must not fear the truth. Freedom sets us free.”
Luís Miguel Muñoz Cárdaba (born 1965) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farewell to Bishop Osório Citora, a man of peace and a missionary who believed in the goodness of people (15 June 2026) Fides News Agency
“This action carried out by Hindu radicals was completely senseless and gratuitous. Indian citizens are free to practice their religion according to the constitutional provisions of India. But this freedom has been reduced in recent times, as evidenced by the incident.”
Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss (1947–2024) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Violence by a group of radical Hindu extremists against Catholic pilgrims (22 August 2019) Fides News Agency
“I can do what I want, when I want, how I want. Go where I want. Sleep in the temperature I want to sleep in. I have a freedom that’s overwhelming sometimes. I love being free.”
Jenifer Lewis (born 1957) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nobody Says No to Jenifer Lewis by Yohana Desta. August 31,2022. Retrieved 9/11/2023.
“This is a great battle for our territory and our freedom. It’s a historic chance for the free world to kill this evil.”
Yulia Tymoshenko (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yulia Tymoshenko on war in Ukraine: ‘It’s a chance for the free world to kill this evil’ by Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh. June 8, 2022. Retrieved 24/11/2023.
“I think that when a man becomes a bishop he doesn't cease to be a citizen and as a citizen every responsible man has right make up his own mind and his own conscience and to follow it and I think also that wise people would believe that everybody being free to to ventilate his own view, whether they like them or not, well, that's the real freedom of democracy.”
Daniel Mannix (1864–1963) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Archbishop Mannix (1962) Australian Screen
“all Russia is an immense prison to every Russian of progressive ideas. It is worth everything to the men and women who are working for freedom in Russia to know that free and civilized nations sympathize with them and wish them success.”
Catherine Breshkovsky (1844–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amongst the discoveries which reason made, the most fateful was this: that man is not free. It might well have seemed the most obviously reasonable thing to hedge this unfree man about with state conventions. Instead, the liberals demanded that this man-who was biologically unfree-should have perfect individual and political freedom.”
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moldova is firmly determined to remain part of the free world. The freedom and the dignity of our people make us a country with a strong European identity, which we deeply value.”
Alexandru Codreanu first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H.E. Alexandru Codreanu (2022) Czech & Slovak Leaders
“Religious freedom in this country now means Muslims are free to do as they please and anyone who says anything about it is a bigot”
Mark Robinson (American politician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fond of your freedom spurn the venal fee, And prove he's only great—who dares to be free.”
Paul Whitehead (1710–1774) first seen 1739 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manners (1739), l. 21; 2nd ed. (1748):
“It's politically correct only to speak of those things that are subjective, only to speak of those things that you determine "work for you," they may not "work for me." We're in a prison with that. They want to break out of that prison that holds them bound. Once they know the truth – and the truth is Christ – that sets them free. And then their acts of freedom are rooted in Christ.”
John Michael Quinn (born 1945) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop sees new generation seeking truth, rejecting relativism (13 March 2012) Catholic News Agency
“Hamline University is dedicated to intellectual inquiry in its full depth, breadth, abundance, and diversity. It is committed to academic freedom and celebrates free expression for everyone.”
Fayneese Miller wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Translation: My search for truth, for love, for myself, has perhaps led me to write poetry. The eternal direction of this search seems to be freedom and liberation. May I be free from all bondage, like clouds in the sky, moving aimlessly and formlessly.”
Orkhontuya Batjargal first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Orkhontuya Batjargal (2025) cited in: "Б. Орхонтуяа: Үүлэнд асар их тэвчээр байдгийг ойлгосон" in Усны Гудамж, 9 January 2025.
“As a mixed-race African and adoptee I feel, paradoxically, oppressed and completely free....My adult life has been largely devoted to healing this rift. The freedom of my paradoxical position, is in fact that I don't have the constraints of a traditional role and I have access to the world.”
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 1966) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crossing Borders", Issue 3, 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
“First be free, then ask for freedom”
Sonia Terrab (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For us, as kids, snow was synonymous with fun. Snow meant speed, exhilaration, and toppling laughter. Snow gave us the freedom to fight, slide, crash, and make a mess, without the fear of a scolding. Snow put a wrench in the works, stopped the numbing timetable of school lessons and stealing an extra day of free time.”
Sally Coulthard (born 1974) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (160 pages; 1st edition 2018)
“Balochistan was a free country and we will get our freedom back. Whether it will take 100 years or 1000 years, Baloch will take back their country, we have made the decision. We cannot remain in the slavery of anyone.”
Naela Quadri Baloch (born 1965) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Rakesh Tripathi, ETV Bharat (2 August 2023)
“There should be more freedom of choice. People should be free to decide whether to go to a smoking establishment or a non-smoking environment.”
Alison Cooper (born 1966) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alison Cooper, Imperial Tobacco chief, rails against positive discrimination April 27, 2010
“[My conviction] is inspired by a deep desire for change and justice, and the fact that as young South African people we are defined as ‘Born-Free’, but have never had a chance to interrogate freedom and ask questions about our democracy”
Zulaikha Patel (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not like being labelled as a born-free because I've always questioned whether the freedom is a reality”
Zulaikha Patel (born 2003) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zulaikha Patel On Self-Care, Self-Love, GBV & Emancipation of the Mind 28 April, 2020
“It is in Christianity that the spirit becomes self-transparent consciousness, a reality ‘in and of itself’ (to use the language of Hegel), free initiative and absolute freedom. (introduction, p. 9)”
Battista Mondin (1926–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we want to talk about freedom, we can say that the more we gain knowledge of the processes that determine us, the more we are able to be free. (p. 8)”
Salvatore Natoli (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But at the same time, they will be happier to be free, and freedom is the most important gift you can give to these animals if you truly love them.”
Tomas Diagne wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom has been closely entangled with ideas of whiteness and white racial identity in modern history, so that to be free has often meant to be white, and vice versa.”
Tyler Stovall (1954–2021) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2018
“I entered Waseda in September of Taishō 6 (or 7), the year of the school disturbances when professors like Nagai Ryūtarō and Ōyama Ikuo resigned. I was drawn to Waseda because it was founded by Marquis Ōkuma Shigenobu as a free academy aiming for the independence of learning and freedom of research in opposition to the bureaucratic military clique of the time.”
Inejirō Asanuma (1898–1960) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maa-Maa Koji's Discourse: The Path I Have Walked (1950)
“For Sécretan, all necessities, even logical ones, are relative; God created logical, mathematical, and moral truths: truth and good are divine creation. The order of the world is necessary because it is a free effect of divine will: everywhere necessity rests on freedom and presupposes it. The absolute is God with respect to the world because divine attributes exist only with respect to the world.”
Adolfo Levi (1878–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Public access to information and fundamental freedom are the new normative definition of a free, pluralistic, independent media, and the safety of journalists are the basis for peace, development and progress in the land. In this task, citizens, state actors and professionals have to work in concert.”
Dapo Olorunyomi (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I understand the sacrifices they have made to make my country free and feed its people. I also appreciate that my brothers and sisters died for that freedom and if I can afford that cost of going to the Games, so be it.”
Frankie Fredericks (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lovers of Freedom Will Be Free.”
Hallie Beachem Brooks (1907–1985) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Phylon, Vol. 12, No. 1, review by Hallie Beachem Brooks. (1951)
“As these people are not convicted of forfeiting freedom, they have still a natural, perfect right to it; and the Governments whenever they come should, in justice set them free, and punish those who hold them in slavery.”
Thomas Paine (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free... And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues. You know feeling good was good enough for me, Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.”
Janis Joplin (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, Old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”
Edith Wharton (misattributed) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road", 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
“To be successful, a campaign to maintain the free internet and freedom of information has to go beyond vandal hackers. Stunts designed not to provoke dialogue or persuade the public of the rightness of the cause but simply to throw up a middle finger to authority are more hindrance than help.”
Heather Brooke (attributed) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We should all be hacktivists now", The Guardian (20 April 2012).
“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans— Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”
Abraham Coles (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Britain we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.”
Ian Hislop (born 1960) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Have I Got News For You (11 October 2013).